LSW employs the works of Shakespeare
alongside those of other major
Dramatic/Cinematic/Musical writers and thinkers as a tool
towards effective interaction in order to (a) create new work
and (b) promote confidence through the will to dream for all.

Since 26th October 1997 LSW has (i) established the
hugely successful and unique 'Shakespeare
Workouts' (as founded by Dr. Bruce Wall, LSW's Executive Director, aside
Dame Dorothy Tutin) and involved the interactive participation of over 12,000 professional
performers and 9,000 offenders/ex-offenders; (ii) given noted presentations/workshops in
venues
ranging from the House of Lords to the United Nations; from
Scotland Yard to Broadway
and has (iii) established itself as an effective
producer
of quality professional theatre in venues ranging
from HMP Pentonville to the
Royal
Opera House; from the Norwich Playhouse to the West End's Criterion
and
Palladium Theatres; from the beautiful 'Egg' at the Theatre Royal Bath in Somerset to the
Stephan Joseph Theatre in North Yorkshire; from the Battersea Arts Centre to the
Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan Theatre
(Straford Upon Avon, UK) in an Educational launch
with the RSC as well
as in incentives involving the Canadian Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario
to
membership
in such European undertakings as the Prisons Arts Network and the Will to Dream
Incentive.
LSW has
enjoyed involvement in endeavours in countries spanning Bulgaria, Slovakia, Estonia, Austria, Spain,
Brazil,
the Czech Republic, Malta,
Italy, Ireland, the United States, Wales, Canada, Uganda, Northern Ireland, China, Chile,
India, Germany and Norway among others. In tandem with
the London Business School, LSW developed
the successful Corporate programme (Willing Dreams) proactively running programmes for a wide range of
major corporate entities
including Sony-Ericsson, CelTel, Glaxo Smith Kline, the Metropolitan Police,
Deutsche Bank,
Lloyds TSB and Danone and continues to operate Dramatic Workshops in a vast array
of educational
organisations
ranging from all leading members of the Conference of Drama Schools
(CDS)
to Educational
Departments within 100 different English Prisons and the Military Corrective
Training Centre;
from the Liverpool
Institute for the
Performing Arts to Trinity College, Dublin; from a relationship with BADA
(the British
American Drama Academy) to incentives involving both Cambridge (ETC & ADC)
and Oxford
(OUDS) Universities as well as multitudinous sessions involving students in schools at all levels
throughout the United Kingdom
(including programmes at such historic institutions
as Bedales, Uppingham, Kings,
King Williams College
on the Isle of Man and the McAuley
School in Doncaster); from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
(where on-going programmes have successfully been undertaken for the past decade) to a large number of
presentations for
noted
organisations spanning The Young Presidents Association to Rainer's REST
(resettlement) initiatives
and both the Bath Shakespeare Festival and the Shakespeare Institute's British Shakespeare Conference.

THEATRICAL PRESENTATIONS

Among the world premiere presentations LSW
has successfully produced areVOICES (ROH, Oxford Playhouse, ADC); HOMAGE BEHIND (Criterion
Theatre);ALBA (HMP Send & Criterion Theatre); BLACKING IAGO (HMP
Brixton, BBC2 &
National Theatres spanning
Theatre Royal Bath to
Alnwick Playhouse); BLACK ATLAS
(appearing nationally
in theatres spanning Hull Truck to the
Cambridge Arts Theatre) and the
original musical LIFTING THE MASK (again appearing throughout UK's professional
theatrical
venues and additionally opening several new British venues). Celebrated original
versions of Shakespeare's plays have
also been
presented including THE WAX KING (Henry VI, Pt. 3);
SHAKESPEARE 'N SINATRA (The Winter's Tale)
and
ANIMATING MACBETHS as
well as early productions of TWELTH NIGHT and ANTONY & CLEOPATRA.
LSW was privileged to present the 90 minute ROUNDING SHAKESPEARE
programme at the California Mens Colony in
California
about which a Los Angeles
Times feature was written,
photographs taken by the esteemed Georgia Oetker,
and a multitude of responses from the men (prisoners)
involved can be found by clicking here.
You can additionally see film clips embedded from a prison programme in
Santiago, Chile here.

TIM WILLIAMS AWARDS

Since 2009 in memory of LSW's late Musical Director, Tim Williams, the charity
has been sponsoring an awards
programme celebrating the art of theatrical song composition, specifically as it
relates to lyrics either drawn from
or inspired by classical/established sources not originally intended to be sung.
This has led the the hugely successful
programmes FIRST TIME,
READINESS IS ALL,
OUT OF THE PIANOand
WHEN YOU HEAR MY VOICE. A twenty five song
sampling from TWA incentives can be heard
here
and highlight videos sampled
here.
In 2014 LSW is proud to be able to contribute to a programme focusing enhanced
literacy through word,
music and dance in partnership with the esteemed English National Ballet's
Choreographics incentive.

INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATION IN MALTA

In January/February 2012 LSW was thrilled to be able to
engineer a
theatrical project in association
with the young offenders division (YOURS) of the Corradino Correctional Facility
(CCF) in Malta.WHEN YOUHEAR MY VOICE involved a team of professionals and international young
offenders performing 'outside' at the
St. James Cavalier
Theatre alongside the creation of a feature-length
documentary concerning the restorative effect of literacy by the noted film
maker, Natasha Serlin.
A fully illustrated LSW report - replete with 182 stunning photos - can be seen
here.

LSW Productions has also been responsible
for the independent production of eleven
half hour documentaries including the internationally acclaimed HOW DO YOU
KNOW
MY DAUGHTER? and KILLING BIRDS: ANIMATING MACBETHS alongside twenty one shorts and the development of the successful 'Will to
Dream' Digital Video
Shooting and Editing Training Programmes.

LSW's projects have successfully raised
individual horizons and improved everyone's sense of self-esteem.
Who ever said poetry makes nothing happen. These people show everyone that
it does.

Rt. Hon. Tessa Jowell, Former Minister, Culture, Media and Sport

LSW is especially proud in its 15th
year to celebrate the
enormous contribution made to 'the dream that is LSW' by
all of its many supporters, (with special thanks to Mark Woodruff & The Sainsbury Family Trusts and the late Jane Attenborough &
the Paul Hamlyn Foundation), and most especially wish to honour the
extraordinary
contributions made by LSW's Musical Director, the sadly late Tim Williams, and
LSW's noted and eternal advocate, the wonderful GAYLE HUNNICUTT

LSW is a Nationally Registered Charity
(No. 1084717)
with the Charities Commission of England and Wales
and an International Trust / Non-Profit Arts Organisation
registered with the IRS in the United States of America.

“LSW works at the highest level ….
What is most impressive is the commitment of the entire company
and its rare
passion for language”
Michael Billington, The Guardian